Verse 3

You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
  • Gen 6:6-7 : 6 The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him. 7 So the Lord said, "I will wipe out humanity, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—humans, along with the animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I have made them."
  • Num 14:35 : 35 I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to this entire wicked community who conspired against me; they will meet their end in this wilderness, and here they will die.
  • Job 12:10 : 10 "In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind."